Mick,

Largest obstacle to good BP performance is fowling. What is your shot to shot wiping routine?

Boats

Ah' just noticed that you use a scope, but still great shooting. I use a vernier rear sight and an aperture front with 62 year old eyes. I shoot off bench cross sticks. I am shooting a lot with different loads, I want to be able to shoot 1" groups on a regular basis.
I wipe the bore after each shot with one damp patch. I am going to try different ways now.
Good luck.
Chris 

Another thing too.  If you are shooting in a 5 mph wind, these little bullets are going to get pushed around.  I'm not sure how much at 100m, but at 200 yards in Tacoma this spring with my .32-40 shooting 1.5 Swiss, I was holding off by the entire width of the 1.79" x-ring to put them in the x-ring.  I'm far from an expert wind reader, but at that time I think the wind was 3 to 5 mph or so.

Chris.

Thanks everybody for all the reply's and advice. My wiping routine is one damp patch pushed through the barrel and then reversed, sometimes I have tried following the damp patch with a dry one to mop out any remaining moisture but found no improvement in so doing.
I fire five shot groups after first firing a couple of fouling shots to see if the scope may have moved since my last session, and also to warm up the barrel a little.
The Paul Jones mould casts a beautiful bullet that weighs 327 gr, these are all inspected for any outside defects and weighed. If I cast say 50 bullets in a session a weight spread of slightly over one grain would separate the 50. 
All bullets fired into a group will weigh exactly the same, no variation whatsoever.
Many of the groups that have measured just over an inch usually have four shots in well under that, something like .7" or .9". These flyers are sometimes halfway through the string, sometimes the last shot so buck fever is not  the culprit I believe. 
I guess the purpose of my post was to ascertain if the level of accuracy I'm getting is at least in the ballpark so to speak. 
From the reply's so far it would seem that what I'm getting is about as good as it's going to get with my current setup.
As a matter of interest my 62 gr load of Wano averaged 1260fps with an ES of 16 fps, the 18.5 gr load of 4227 went 1221 fps with an ES of 13 fps.
Mike.

Last weekend I decided to try some other black powder in my 38-55 high wall.  I have been using some 1972 vintage Goex FF that I got for free from a co-worker.  It was shooting fairly well in both my 45-95 HW and the 38-55.  Nothing to write home about, with around 3" groups at 200 yds in the 38.  I had some newer Goex FF and some old Swiss 1F from when it was first being distributed by Petro-Explo.  I had loaded up 6 rds of each with the same volume as I had been using with the older Goex.  The old FF weighed 42 gr, the newer FF weighed 38 gr and the Swiss 1F weighed 44 gr all with approximately .2" compression, a CCI 200 primer and a Saeco 302 gr 30-1 lubed with SPG with blow tubing only.   The winds were a bit swirly as they always seem to be at my home range as the old FF load shot about 3+ inches and the newer FF was patterning at about 6 inches.  With the Swiss shot 2 was about 2 inched left of shot 1 and shots 3 through 6 were within an inch of #1.  
  I went back to the range today with about 17 rounds of the Swiss and after 2 foulers shot a 1-1/8 vertical by 2-1/8 horizontal 7 shot group in conditions where the smoke at the muzzle would run hard right while the dust from the impact on the berm would run hard left.  I tried some 340 gr ideal bullets but they shot horribly.  With 3 Saeco rds left, I put them into a 7/8" group. All shots were at 200 yds with a 12X Targetspot.  
I am very satisfied that that Swiss load is as accurate as I can expect from this rifle and this shooter.  I only shoot iron sights in competition with BP and expect this load to be competitive.  I will be using it at Tacoma in September.  Hope to see you there again Chris.

Jack

I have tried 20-1 and 24-1, several different primers, various levels of compression.  Sacrificing chickens, standing on my head and too many other things over the years.  Eventually something works out, then you get a new lot of powder!

Jack

Does the use of floral foam wads have any negative impact on fouling when used with black powder?